Ah! A pleasant talk while taking a pleasant walk. That’s this afternoon along the railway line turned garden at Langley Garden Station. Good refreshments too. Vegetarians and Vegans catered for.
The Sangha Refuge.
Ah, good.
Spending time together.
Ah, good.
The Sangha Refuge.
Ah, good.
Gathering together.
Ah, good.
Walking
Talking
Debating
Deciding
Implementing
Together.
Ah, good.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness
which does not bow before children.
~Kahlil Gibran
Compassion – Love – Humility.
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my
sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the
love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
~Kahlil Gibran
There is only one thing
To train hard
For this is true enlightenment.
Zen Master Dogen – Rules for Meditation
Or as it came to me one day when I was a novice:
Oh!
We don’t train
in order to become
enlightened.We train
because
it is
enlightenment!
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise
or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a
little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if
you let go completely you will have complete peace.
~Ajahn Chah